CaseFormation1989

Grand Canyon (North Rim), AZ, USA

Three positioned lights brightly moving slowly east over south rim of the Grand Canyon almost dark.

Report quality: Moderate51/100

This score reflects report-quality signals on file — how complete, corroborated, and precisely located the report is — not a claim about whether the sighting was a real craft.

  • Duration parsed: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (99 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1989-12-01
Where
Grand Canyon (North Rim), AZ, USA
Shape
Formation
Duration
30 minutes
Geo
36.054, -112.139 · exact
Slug
formation-over-grand-canyon-north-rim-az-1989-94ace5
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1989–1991

    The Belgian Triangle Wave

    Belgium (Eupen, Wallonia, Brussels corridor)

    The definitive black-triangle wave: silent, slow platforms with three corner lights, reported by gendarmes, air-traffic controllers, and thousands of citizens. On the night of March 30-31, 1990, Belgian F-16s scrambled…

In context

  • Grand Canyon (North Rim), AZ has 3 sightings on file here.
  • 1989 brought 13 reports from Arizona.
  • The 1980s skewed 2.5% formation reports; the archive-wide figure is 3.3%.

Report

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